Delusional Themes Across Affective and Non-Affective Psychoses

Delusional Themes Across Affective and Non-Affective Psychoses

The current debate about the diagnostic significance of delusion revolves around two positions. The neurocognitive position conceives delusion as a non-specific, though polymorphic, symptom. The psychopathological position views features of delusion such as content and structure as having meaningful connections with diagnostic entities. This study aims at contributing to this debate by examinin...

Social functioning and age across affective and nonaffective psychoses.

Both nonaffective and affective psychoses are associated with deficits in social functioning across the course of the illness. However, it is not clear how social functioning varies among diagnostic groups as a function of age. The current study examined the relationship between social functioning and age in schizophrenia (SZ), schizoaffective disorder (SZA), and psychotic bipolar disorder (PBD...

Neuropsychological functioning predicts community outcomes in affective and non-affective psychoses: a 6-month follow-up.

INTRODUCTION Neurocognitive dysfunction is a major symptom feature of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. A prognostic relationship between cognition and community outcomes is well-documented in schizophrenia and increasingly recognized in bipolar disorder. However, specific associations among neurocognition, diagnosis, state symptomatology, and community functioning are unclear, and few studie...

Schizo Affective Psychoses—are They Schixophrenic?

When Emil Kraeplin in .1899 gave the clinical description of the two psychoses 'Dementia Praccox" and 'Manic-Depressive Insanity,' he laid not only the foundation of our modern psychiatric taxonomy, but also the roots of our present diagnostic difficulties concerning the clinical forms which do not entirely meet the criteria required for inclusion in one or other of the two groups. Several work...

The clinical distinction between the affective psychoses and schizophrenia.